Fire-blower and fire-screen.



PATENTBD MAY 26, 1903. P. GRAYSON.

FIRE BLOWER AND FIRE SGREEN APPLICATION FILED DEC. 31. 1900.

N0 MODEL.

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Unrrnin STATES Patented. May 26., 1903,

PATENT Orricn,

FIRE-BLOWER AND FIRE-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 728,905, dated May 26, 1908.

Application filed December 31, 1900. Serial No. 41,694. (No model.)

To atZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAULINE GRAYSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Ermine Hotel, in the city of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Blowers and Fire- Screens, (for which I have made application for Letters Patentin Great Britain, No. 22,324, and dated December 7, 1900,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in connection with fire-blowers, fire and grate screens, the object being to produce an apparatus capable of being readily applied to the front of a fire-grate for inducing a draft, so

as to increase the combustion of the fuel, and also to be equally readily applied to a grate to serve as a screen or ornamental attachment when the fire is not in use upon the hearth or when it is desired to interpose a screen before the burning fire, while the apparatus admits of its being readilywithdrawn and folded, so as to be stored in a small space and to be made When desired as an ornamental adjunct to the furnishings and fitments in connection with ordinary fireplaces and hear'ths.

In the accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view.

In carrying my invention into elfect when constructing my improved fire blower and screen I provide two vertical standards or frames to, and onto these I hinge the outermost of a series of folding members or screenpanels a of a width and shape preferably to suit the vertical members a of the side frames, to which they are to be extended- Thus when the standards are moved outward an extended surface is produced sufficient to cover the front of the fire-bars and grate, so as to cause a current of air to enter beneath the fire-bars, and thus to induce a draft for promoting the combustion of the fuel.

In order to enable the independent members of the screen to be readily folded one upon the other and to be kept in proper position, I form a hole or holes 6 through each independent member or hinged plate, and through these holes I pass a cord, chain, or the like f to serve as a carrying device and also as a means for drawing the members together, I preferably form the holes 6 in the independent hinged plates as eyeleted pas sages forthe chainf' to pass through, while on the ends of the chain I preferably attach rings g. The panels are connected together by any suitable hingessuch, for instance, as a ring 70, passing through openings near the edges of the plates.

The legs upon which the standards a are supported are made to turn independently of each other, one leg m being carried by the lower end of the standard, while the other leg at has a tubular end encircling the standard between the upper end of the legm and a collar or rib 0, so as to be rotatable thereon. By this means legs 1% and It may be relatively rotated to bring leg or into the same plane with the leg n and directly under it, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

I prefer to make my improved apparatus of a Width such that it will suit the largest fire or grate openings. When using a large screen for a narrow grate, I fold one or more of the panels or plates upon the other, so as to enable one screen to be employed for various widths of grate.

I employ my apparatus when used as a firescreen to stand at any position at or near the fire, using for this purpose the form of construction hereinbefore described and illustrated, in which the double legs are arranged upon the screen, so as to enable the screen to stand independently in any desired position.

I use my improved combination-screen as an ornament to cover the grate when such is not in use by placing the apparatus in its extended position in front of or near the firebars.

I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular material or to any particular form of blower, guard, or screen or to any special method of jointing the members together; but I modify the shapes of the plates and the arrangement of the supporting memhers and the method of ornamenting the same to suit the metal or material employed for any particular requirement. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A portable blower or fender comprising a In witness whereof I have hereunto set my series of vertically-folding platesor 'panels hand in presence of two Witnesses. pivotally connected to ether and a pair of legs connected to each outer member, the PAULINE GRAYs-ON' 5 legs or members of each pair being movable \Vitnesses:

or folding in relation to each other, substan- FRANCIS J. BIGNELL,

tially as described.

BERTRAM H. I. MATTHEWS. 

